How does it start?

First a pop quiz. Your platoon is surrounded, trapped on a hillside and down to their last magazines of ammunition.

Question: Who do you want in the relief column to save you, military people like picture A or military people like picture B?

PICTURE:  A

PICTURE: B 

There are any one of 10,000 ways this revolution could get kicked off. For my money, it will start with a Waco style gun grab. Federal agents acting as LB’s private SS will knock on 78 year old Howard Frees door and demand entrance to his home to check for illegal guns. Frees will deny them entry. When the feds push Frees to ground and force their way inside the home, Mrs. Frees follows Slow Joe Bidens advice and lets loose two rounds from a double barrel shotgun, but not into the air, Mrs. Frees knows better. She fires from the shoulder. Pellets from the double blast strike all three of the intruding LB SS officers in their faces and necks. Howard quickly gathers himself and grabs one of the “assault rifles” from one of the LB SS officers - only the feds are allowed to have them now - and disarms the other LB SS officers. After lecturing them on the constitution and relieving them of their weapons and other combat gear, Howard tells the LB SS officers to get out and never come back.

Howard Frees modest compound is quickly surrounded. Head of the LB SS office, Janet Incompetentano, sends 50 of the 2,700 new mine resistant urban assault vehicles to reinforce the siege on the Frees residence.

Then a strange thing happens. Seeing the siege unfold live on tv, hundreds of armed American citizens begin to establish a camp near the siege. Soon thousands arrive. Orders to cease and desist are ignored with profane rejoinders.

Janet Incompetentano herself orders an extra wide lens to go tv to order the camp to lay down their weapons and go home. The leader of the camp sends a two word reply. Molan Llabe. Baffled, Incompetentano calls in code experts who cannot figure the cryptic message out. Then a priest, who arrived on the scene to pray for peace and was arrested, informs Incompetentano that it is a Greek phrase from the battle of Thermopylae. Still baffled the priest has to explain to Incompetentano that when the Persian King Xerxes ordered the Greeks to lay down their weapons at Thermopylae, the Greek King Leonidas responded in Greek, Molan Llabe or “come and take them.”

Soon the thousands of US citizens begin to cut the supply lines to LB's SS surrounding the Frees compound. When the last supply road into the area is blocked, LB’s SS begin to ex-filtrate (aka desert) to join the free men surrounding the surrounders.

Next, Incompetentano’s SS force is reduced to a few LB “free phoners” and a few of the preening prisses in picture A above, either too weak or too worried about soiling their finery to be of much use.

On day 2, LB’s SS quit. The leader of the force surrounding them is urged to have the SS stripped naked and forced to walk out barefoot in front of the tv cameras. The leader knows Janet Incompetentano is among the captured SS. He knows if he forces Americans to look at her naked body it will set movement back years for being cruel. Not for stripping the SS naked, they deserve that, but for putting picture of a naked Janet Incompetentano on tv. Most would rather be water boarded than undergo the cruel and unusual punishment of seeing Janet Incompetentano naked – even briefly. Just the mental image of that fate will have readers skipping lunch today.

So that’s how it starts. How does it end? How many free men are willing to risk everything to remain free?  Now there's a difference between the state protecting the people from armed men bent on doing the citizens of the US harm and the state inflicting harm on legally armed men.  LB is creating the straw man that armed men are dangerous in and of themselves.  As such they can be sanctioned by the state.  Men who take arms against the US deserve whatever they get.  Men who protect themselves from an onerous, intrusive and tyrannical government deserve our praise.

This is all fantasy of course - except:
DHS did order 2,700 mine resistant vehicles for operations on US soil.
DHS is buying up billions of rounds of ammunition.
DHS does have drones that can be used to detect armed US citizens.
DoJ has said that it can use drones to kill US citizens on US soil.